[KevinDavis]

Granted it is, but he is an AMERICAN CITIZEN we don’t deport AMERICAN CITIZENS regardless..

[Tax-chick]

I agree. What’s so hard about saying the deportation was an unfortunate error?

[fr_freak]

Granted it is, but he is an AMERICAN CITIZEN we don’t deport AMERICAN CITIZENS regardless..

True enough. But the point of the article/hit piece is that our attempts to deport illegal immigrants are wrong because we get American citizens caught up in the net. My point is that the incidents are so few and far between that they have to find a mentally ill criminal to use as an example. Part of the argument that the illegal immigrants' lobby uses is that Mexican immigrants make good citizens, but what they are trying to hide is the fact that many of the so-called citizens are indistinguishable from illegal immigrants in that they are no closer to American culture than those who just arrived.

Tying this incident, if we can even believe that it is true, to a fear of regular Americans getting deported at will is ridiculous, and I'm sure ABC knows it, but for the gullible (which is basically all of the Obama electorate), stories like this have propaganda value.